After Zhao Si became Miquella's Knight, many people wondered what he would do.
As the person closest to Miquella apart from Malenia, his movements were very likely to represent Miquella's wishes.
Those who liked to puzzle out their lord's intentions hoped to grasp Miquella's spirit ahead of time through Zhao Si's actions.
Study the Haligtree's spirit of development and promote Miquella's core values.
All of this was very necessary. It was the responsibility shouldered by their generation of Haligtree citizens, and they had to carry on that legacy properly.
Some guessed that Miquella's Knight would receive a fief and enjoy being a landowner first.
Enfeoffment in the Lands Between came with real power.
If he was allotted a city and a stretch of land, everything within them would fall under his administration.
As long as he did not rebel, he could practically do whatever he pleased without anyone interfering. Even if his actions provoked universal outrage, nothing would happen as long as the higher lord above him did not know.
Expecting a bunch of peasants to rise up in resistance was a tall order. The soldiers under a lord knew perfectly well who gave them their good lives.
If a lord was stupid enough to offend even his own soldiers, then he really was not far from death.
Everyone within a fief was private property.
Shouldn't Miquella's Knight enjoy himself properly?
He did not. Miquella's Knight accepted no fief at all.
Then was he going to find a wife first?
This counted as a promotion, a rise in wealth, and an elevation in status. Previously, his identity as a Tarnished had made finding a wife rather difficult.
Now that everyone was Tarnished, it no longer mattered.
From the Haligtree to the Mountaintops of the Giants, counting them off on one's